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forehead of a person who indulged in intoxication. It was the king who possessed the authority of making the scar on the forehead of the person.
Atrismộti points out that a Brāhmin who had just taken some plain water which had been in touch with some intoxicating liquor should purge of his offence by undergoing the *kşcchapāda' atonement.2 About 'Krcchapāda' atonement at another place it is said that a Brāhmin indulging in intoxicating drinks should be very severely punished by forcibly pouring a very hot liquor into his mouth so that he dies instantaneously. It is then only he can be purified from such a major sin; but in case he has accidently or unknowingly drunk the liquor, he should not be given such a drastic punishment; he should just drink ghee, milk and water etc. for three subsequent days for its atonement.4 Śātā tapasmộti, however, discusses another way of atonement for intoxication. It says, he who is to be purified for intoxication would chant mantras and offer in the yajõa a pitcher full of gold and ghee and half a pitcher of honey to please Varuņa."
In the Mahābhārata, "as for the prominent sins of royal military caste, they are mentioned as hunting, drinking,
1. “Suradhvaja', Vişvakośa, N.N. Vasu, vol. 24, p. 344. 2. HERİFTE FE frafales: कृच्छपादेन शुद्धयेत पुनः संस्कारमर्हति ।
| JAtrismrti, 20 3. सुरापस्य ब्राह्मणस्योष्णामासिचेयुः सुरामास्ये मृतः शुद्धयेत् ।
–Gautamasmrti, Chap. 24. 4. अमत्या पाने पयोघृतमुदकं वायु प्रतिव्यहं तप्तानि सकृच्छ्रस्ततोस्य
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-Śātā tapasmști, 3.2,3.
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